SD card problem with Experia XP

[Anonymous]

 my Experia SP stopped recognising the SD card about a month after I first used it so I bought a new one. The phone recognised the new SD card for about two weeks but then again stopped recognising it. Has anyone else had this problem? Does anyone have a solution to the problem?

[MI5]

Do the SD cards work in other devices or in a card reader on your PC/Laptop?

[Anonymous]

No, once the phone stops recognising them my laptop doesn't recognise them either so i keep losing my photos

[MI5]

What make are the cards? Sounds like they are going faulty.......

[Anonymous]

They are both Kingston; the first was 8Gb and the seconf 32Gb. I've looked on the Sony forum and there are other users with the same problem

[Anonymous]

I've just tried thge 32Gb card in my laptop again and it said that it neede formatting. I tried to format it and it said it was write protected, how can i remove write prorect, and is this likeley to solve the problem?

[MI5]

Is it a small micro sd card?

http://www.tomshardware.co.uk/forum/296914-32-remove-write-protection-micro-card

[Anonymous]

Tjhanks for your help; i've tried this but once i have created the new folder and named it the only options i get when right clicking the new folder are:

• Expand
• New
• Find
• Delete
• Rename
• Export
• Permissions
• Copy key name

Any idea where i went wrong?

[MI5]

tbh I just found it by doing a search on Google... It does say to remove and reinsert the card from your PC so I assume you did that step too?

[Anonymous]

Hi,

I've not read the forum articles but if other Sony forum users are reporting the same issue then perhaps a fault with the device..?  To have one card pop is bad luck, another is quite suspicious in my book (esp. if a good brand like Kingy).

I have to wonder if the indexing/formatting part of the card is being corrupt and not easily fixable via phone or Windows so it's assumed the card has died.  I've heard there's an HP disk formatting tool on t'internet which can rescue owners from such problems (but of course doesn't help with your loss of photographs and other valuable data.  I typically use MyPhoneExplorer to grab a full backup of everything once a month (internal and plug-in storage).

Jonty.